5 Doctor Who: Jurassica

Bailey and the Doctor arrive on a planet populated by dinosaurs but it seems history is about to repeat itself when an asteroid threatens to wipe out all life on jurassica.

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Doctor Who Episode Script

Jurassica

Written by Chloe Taylor

The Doctor is hanging beneath the TARDIS consol, plugging in
various cables and making sparks. Bailey is sitting reading a
book, Jurassic Park. The Doctor watches her through the glass
floor and, slightly confused, comes up and stands by the consol
to see what she's doing.

Doctor: (Slightly confused)

Are you...reading?

Bailey: (Sarcastic tone)

No Doctor I'm riding a horse, what does it look like I'm doing?

Doctor: (Enthusiastic)

But why are you reading when we could be exploring new worlds,
saving doomed space ships...

Bailey: (Talking plainly)

Being chased by monsters, almost killed by robots and giant
flying aliens!

Doctor: (Clearly lost that battle)

Where did you get it from anyway?

Bailey: Library

Doctor: (Talking to thin air)

See I said it would turn up someday!

Bailey: I'm still here Doctor!

Doctor: (Coming back to reality)

Right! Why did you pick that one? There must be hundreds of books
in the TARDIS library.

Bailey: Well, I watched the film when I was a kid so I
decided to see if the book was any good, it sort of jumped at me!

Doctor: Yeah sorry, thought I'd fixed that!

Bailey: And it's not like we're going anywhere right now

Doctor: (Turning to the consol)

That's what you think!

Bailey: (Puts her book down and joins the Doctor at
the consol)

The Doctor types in his desired date, pushes some buttons and
throws the TARDIS space time throttle. The TARDIS sparks into
life and Bailey and the Doctor are thrown around the control room
until the TARDIS finally comes to a stop crashing on its side,
landing Bailey almost on top of the Doctor beside the front
doors.

Bailey: (Breathless)

What sort of a landing was that?!

Doctor: (Clambering out from behind Bailey)

Sorry, don't know what went wrong there!

Bailey: You've been flying her for around 600 years, don't
you know how to do it properly yet?

Doctor: (Attempts to stand up, now waling horizontally
to the room)

Well I can't be expected to know how to do everything you know

The Doctor clambers around the TARDIS and up onto the main consol
and attempts to re-park the TARDIS which materializes the correct
way up in a prehistoric jungle. Bailey and the Doctor pick
themselves up off of the floor and open the doors to reveal the
enormous forest.

Bailey: (Stepping out of the TARDIS)

WOW! Where are we?

Doctor: (Stepping out of the TARDIS and joining
Bailey)

Planet Jurassica, first planet of the Prehissomean galaxy, been
knocking about for around oooo, erm I don't know how old this
planet is.

Bailey: Probably old age setting in Doctor!

Doctor: Oi!

Bailey: But is this planet safe?

Doctor: Don't know, never been here before!

Bailey: (Annoyed)

Doctor!

Doctor: What?! Oh come on what's life without a little
mystery ay?

The Doctor starts to lead Bailey into the dense jungle around
them, they marvel at the colossal plants and trees that tower
miles over head.

Bailey: (Suddenly becoming nervous)

Doctor, why is this planet called Jurassica?

Doctor: (Stops walking)

Ok, um the next thing I am about to say might freak you out just
a tiny bit, so take a deep breath and get yourself into a calm
place.

Bailey: (Slightly freaking out already)

Doctor just tell me will you!

Doctor: It's where the dinosaurs came from!

Bailey: When you say dinosaurs, do you mean...?

Bailey doesn't get the chance to finish her question as a herd of
dinosaurs comes crashing through the undergrowth splitting the
Doctor and Bailey landing them on the forest floor where they
remain until the enormous reptiles have disappeared.

Doctor: (Helping Bailey up)

Yeah, reel dinosaurs!

Bailey: I nearly got run over by a dinosaur!

Doctor: (Correcting her)

I think it was several actually!

Bailey: (Verging on hysteria)

I am on a planet full of dinosaurs!

Doctor: (Slightly confused by her reaction)

Is that a good thing?

Bailey: (Hugging him tightly)

It's amazing!

Doctor: Actually, it's a bit boring!

Bailey: (Stunned)

How can you say that, to see an actual living dinosaur is
amazing, no-one on Earth can say that they've seen a living
dinosaur.

Doctor: To be honest I'd rather visit the ice world of
Heximas 6

Bailey: Oh come on Doctor! Can't we take a look around?

Doctor: Fine!

Bailey: (Rushing off)

Yay!

Doctor: Just be careful, dinosaurs may be boring but
they're not to be taken likely!

Inside the control room of the planets Rogantillian base the
captain sits in the bridge with five other crew members.
(Rogantillian's are distant relatives of the Silurians except
they are more closely related to dinosaurs than humans, with long
tails and sharp teeth)

That's not right, they're not due to start migrating for another
few centennials

Magda: And the 148 mam

Captain: (Confused)

Where are they all going?

Fi: Mam every single herd on the planet seems to be
moving to the southern hemisphere

Yvonne: I've got the same here too Captain

Captain: Sorin, Zafrone go out and run environment checks I
want to know why they've decided to go

Sorin: Right away mam, come on Zafrone

Zafrone: (Smiling at Sorin)

I'm coming!

Sorin and Zafrone leave the room and enter a small chamber with
flashing lights around the walls, the lights flash faster and
faster until the room is filled with brilliant white light and
when the light fades the pair of them have disappeared.

Back out on the planet floor Bailey and the Doctor are still
wandering around watching the herds of dinosaurs grazing around
them, they wander into a large clearing where they can see most
of the planets forests from.

Doctor: Can we go somewhere more exciting now?

Bailey: Oh come on Doctor, if you had the chance to see
something you had heard about since infantry and never seen
before would you pass it up?

Doctor: (Tripping over a large fern and getting angry with
it)

Well what do you think I've been doing most of my life?!

Bailey: (laughs)

So come on tell me about dinosaurs Doctor

Doctor: (Sighs, but he likes showing off)

Well, like I said this world is ancient but a few hundred years
ago several different species of dinosaurs were transported to
your planet, which at the time was a lush jungle like this one,
perfect dino habitat, but you know the rest of the story.

Bailey: Giant asteroid strikes the planet, wipes out the
majority of life on Earth and mother nature has to start from
scratch, but who took the dinosaurs to Earth in the first place?

Doctor: (Looks over the trees in front of them and spies
the roof of the Rogantillian base)

Hello! Now you don't look like you belong over there!

Suddenly an enormous gust of wind blows the Doctor and Bailey to
the ground and in a whir of white light Sorin and Zafrone appear
in the clearing.

Sorin: (looking at a holographic map in front
ofher)

Sub soil levels seem normal

(Turns the screen up towards the sky)

And atmosphere seems to be holding nicely

Zafrone: Tell you something though, it's getting hot out!

Sorin: (Spotting the Doctor and Bailey)

Zafrone, look are you seeing this or are my visual sensors
failing me?

Bailey re-appears in the TARDIS control room where she
immediately runs to the door, she attempts to force it open but
the doors are locked.

Doctor: (Rushing back onto the bridge)

Right then, that Asteroid Fi how big is it?

Fi: (Checking the scanner)

Err, over three thousand feet sir

Doctor: (Rushing over to Magda's screen)

Never sir always the Doctor, now Magda was it? bring up its
trajectory

Captain: (Looking around the room)

Where's your friend? Bailey?

Doctor: I sent her back to my ship

Captain: And why did you do that?

Doctor: (Turning to face the Captain)

Because right now it's the safest place to be on this planet

(Sonics the monitor behind him enlarging the information
displayed on an enormous screen in the centre of the room)

That asteroid's changed its course, and it's heading for
Jurassica and it will crash into us in... Magda?

Magda: (Distressed)

Twenty minutes Doctor

Doctor: Twenty minutes

Captain: What do we do?

Yvonne: Twenty minutes isn't enough time to evacuate the
planet

Doctor: No it's not, so we have to find a way to re-direct
the asteroid

Sorin: Like change its current trajectory?

Doctor: Exactly!

Zafrone: How?

Doctor: (Sighs)

I don't know!

There's a moment of silence as the Rogantillians take in
everything the Doctor just said and the fact that they are in
grave danger, the Captain stands as if she's about to say
something but seems to forget what is was.

Yvonne: Who are you Doctor?

Doctor: Concerned party

Magda: Concerned for who?

Doctor: You six, the billions of dinosaurs, and this planet

Sorin: Why?

Doctor: Because this is what I do

Zafrone: What?

Doctor: (Smiles)

This!

The Doctor sonics the various control panels in the room bringing
up a holographic map of the planet in the centre of the room,
dims the lights and brings the shutters down on the windows.

Sorin: We've gone into full shield mode, nothing can get
onto this base now

Zafrone: (Trying to stop the Doctor)

He's going to ruin the programme data!

Doctor: Oh forget the programme data, I'm trying to save
your planet

Captain: Zafrone, leave him, he's right we need to organise
our priorities right now

Zafrone: But Captain!

Captain: That's also an order Zafrone!

Zafrone: Understood

Magda: (Walking over to the Doctor to get a better look
at what he's doing)

So what are you actually doing?

Doctor: Who me? Oh I wouldn't worry about what I'm doing,
now Yvonne I need you to monitor the internal temperature of this
base for me

Yvonne: Of course Doctor

Sorin: Why are you doing that?

Doctor: Because according to your sensors that asteroid is
giving off a heck of a lot of radiation, that's what you felt
when you found us Zafrone

Zafrone: Right, but if you've raised the shields the
radiation won't be able to harm us right?

Doctor: No, but the heat the radiation is giving off very
well could!

Captain: (Getting slightly frustrated)

Doctor, what are you doing with my base?

Bailey sits at the consol, sulking at the fact that the Doctor
has simply left her on her own, in her head she goes over the
last thing the Doctor said to her.

Bailey: (Talking to herself)

Mustard, ketchup, err

(Struggling to remember)

blue leaver, bath tap, but what were the numbers?

(Stands and starts wandering around the consoltapping her head)
Oh come on it can't be harder than trying to remember a phone
number. A phone number!

She hurries to the phone and picks it up on the inside is a
sticky label with a number scrawled onto it

I hope this works

(Dials in the number)

421958693, come on Doctor!

Inside the Base the crew are getting annoyed with the Doctor for
withholding his plans from them.

Captain: Look Doctor this is my research base, I am its
Captain and you will tell me what you are doing!

Doctor: Can someone get the phone?

Sorin: It's not ringing

Doctor: Isn't it?

A phone starts to ring somewhere

Yvonne: (Picking up a communicator)

Hello?

Captain: (Reaching out for the communicator)

Give me that! Hello?

(Frustrated)

Doctor it's your friend

Doctor: (Smiling taking the communicator)

Oh Hello Bailey

Inside the TARDIS

Bailey: Doctor what is going on?

Doctor: I see you found my emergency number on the phone
then, or rather I hear!

Bailey: Doctor just give me a straight answer, what is
going on?

Doctor: (Looks around at the Rogantillians)

Bailey that asteroid I pointed out has changed course, it's going
to collide with the planet in, Magda?

Magda: Sixteen minutes Doctor

Doctor: Sixteen minutes and right now it's spewing out
radiation so I thought it best to send you back to the TARDIS
also I have a job for you to do

Bailey: (Eager to help the Doctor)

What's that?

Doctor: First, Captain are there any missiles on this base,
a ship anything?

Captain: There's a launch pad on the other side of the base
for our rocket trasporter, why?

Doctor: Because we need to give that asteroid a shove!
Bailey do you remember the code I told you?

Bailey: Bits of it yeah, why?

Doctor: I need you to fly the TARDIS

Bailey: (Stunned)

You what!

Doctor: I need you to fly the TARDIS onto the asteroid,
then we can extend the gravity shell and move it away from the
planet, a small boost from one of the Rogantillian rockets should
give you a hand too.

Bailey: Sounds like you've actually thought of a plan
Doctor

Doctor: I always have a plan, contrary to popular belief

Bailey: Yeah great, there's just one problem though

Doctor: What's that then?

Bailey: (Shouting through the phone)

I don't know how to fly the TARDIS and you can barely do it
yourself so how do you expect me to do it?

Doctor: All you have to do is use the instructions I gave
you to pilot the TARDIS and land it on the asteroid ok?

Sorin: Can your companion actually fly your ship?

Doctor: Anyone can fly the TARDIS! Bailey you have to do
this or the planet will be destroyed and there will be nothing I
can do about it

Bailey: (Looking around the consol)

And why's that?

Doctor: Because I'll be dead after that!

Bailey: (Takes a deep breath)

Ok!

Doctor: (Starts rushing around the bridge)
Excellent, now I'm going to need a team to go and prime your
rockets Captain.

The Captain, Yvonne and Sorin leave the bridge and rush off
towards the launch pads on the other side of the base. Meanwhile
Bailey is still waiting for the Doctor to give her his next
instructions.

Bailey: Doctor?

Doctor: Right Bailey use my instructions they should help
you to land the TARDIS on the far side of the asteroid, all you
have to do then is wait for the rockets to impact on the asteroid
and pull the TARDIS space time throttle

Bailey: That's the big silver one with yellow light right?

Doctor: Err, yes I think...

Suddenly the connection between the TARDIS and the base breaks up
and an enormous shockwave hits the base splitting the shell.

Bailey? Bailey? It's knocked out our communications, I just hope
Bailey's being as good as I know she is

Inside the TARDIS Bailey is searching the consol for the parts of
the Doctor's instructions.

Bailey: Mustard, mustard, mustard...

(Finding a yellow mustard bottle wired into the consol as a
button)

MUSTARD!

She presses the bottle down into the consol and the TARDIS begins
to whir.

Bailey: (Keeps searchingand finds a similar
ketchup bottle)

Well if that was mustard then this must be ketchup

(Presses the button)

Blue leaver

(Pulls a blue leaver and laughs at the various controls)

Bath tap! Now the numbers, oh what were they?

(Suddenly remembering the series of numbers and typing them
on the typewriter)

421958693, and the slash squirrel must be literally what it says!

(Types in the word squirrel)

Suddenly the TARDIS jumps into life and dematerialises leaving a
flattened square in the rainforest floor. Bailey is being flung
all over the place around the consol until the TARDIS finally
comes to a halt, landing on the asteroid.

Bailey: (Picking herself up)

Well! That was easy!

Back inside the base the Captain, Yvonne and Sorin have arrived
at the launch pads and begin flicking controls and entering codes
into a large desk littered with buttons and switches.

Captain: Right Yvonne I want to know where to hit this thing

Yvonne: Yes Captain

(Starts typing)

East side, 4800 clicks mam

Captain: Excellent, Sorin inform the Doctor we are ready to
fire on his command

Sorin: Yes mam

(Puts on a nearby head-set and starts talking)
Captain our telecoms have been knocked out, we can't reach the
Doctor or Bailey

Captain: (Sighs)

You'll have to run then!

Sorin: (Nods in understanding and rushes from the
room)

The bridge

Doctor: (Sonicing the communicator)

Come on you piece of junk, WORK!

Suddenly the communicator starts to fuzz like a de-tuned radio
and he hands it to Zafrone

Doctor: See if you can get to the Captain

Zafrone: I'm on it!

Doctor: Now we have to assume Bailey is already onboard the
asteroid and ready for the blast from the rockets to reach the
TARDIS

Zafrone: (Handing the communicator back to the
Doctor)

It's patchy but it's working Doctor

Doctor: (Taking the device)

Brilliant! Now Captain can you hear me?

Inside the control room the Doctor's voice comes through the head
phones and the Captain rushes to put them on.

Captain: Doctor is that you?

Doctor: Oh you bet

Captain: I just sent Sorin to tell you that we're ready this
end just awaiting your order Doctor

Doctor: She'll be with us in a minute then, but as for you
two, Bailey should be ready and waiting now so fire!

Captain: (Not hearing the Doctor's last word)

Sorry Doctor I didn't catch that!

Doctor: I said fire! Fire now!

Captain: (Shouts the order at Yvonne)

FIRE!

Yvonne presses two more buttons and there is an almighty rumble
as a rocket is launched from the pad and heads off into space.
The rocket collides with the asteroid and sends a shockwave that
reaches Bailey and the TARDIS on the other side. Bailey takes
that as her cue and pulls the space time throttle leaver as hard
as she can. The TARDIS engines kick in and the asteroid begins to
slow down and turn away from the planet below, however a small
fragment of the asteroid breaks away from the main body and comes
hurtling back down towards the base landing in between the launch
control room and the bridge.

Suddenly Bailey can hear everything going on down
inside the base but no-one can hear her.

Inside the bridge, smoke fills the air and everything is dark,
the Doctor begins to stir.

Doctor: (Brushing debris off of himself)

Magda? Zafrone? Fi? are you with me?

Magda: (Groans as she tries to stand)

I'm here Doctor

Zafrone: (Waves a hand to show the others where they
are)

We're here, I've got Fi

Magda: (Coughing)

What about the asteroid?

Doctor: (Using the sonic to try and get the screens
working again)

Here...bailey did it, she used the TARDIS to pull the asteroid
away from Jurassica, now it can float away into a nice quiet
corner of space.

Inside the TARDIS Bailey is celebrating to herself, and now
feeling she's an expert she uses some leaver to release the
asteroid which floats quietly away leaving the TARDIS just
drifting in space. She can hear the Doctor talking through the
gramophone speaker on the consol.

Bailey: (Jumping up and down with joy)

Oh yes! Who can fly the TARDIS? Bailey that's who! Now what's the
Doctor doing?

(Listens to the speaker)

Magda: What hit us then, if the asteroid is gone?

Doctor: I think...hang on

(Sonics the hologram in front of them)

When the asteroid flew away, a piece broke off and fell back and
hit the base

Zafrone: (Seriously worried)

What's the damage like?

Doctor: (Doesn't answer, just looks at the image)

Zafrone: Doctor what about the others?

Doctor: The fragment hit the entire eastern corner of the
base, squashed it flat

Zafrone: We have to search for Sorin

Fi: And Yvonne and the Captain, they might still be
alive

Doctor: (Toneless voice)

If they survived the impact then the radiation that shard was
still dishing out will have killed them by now.

Bailey: (Listening in)

No, Doctor you have to find out if they're still alive!

Fi: Wait!

(Rushes over to her screen which the Doctor has
re-activated)

Ha! Look I'm getting vital signs somewhere in the east wing

Zafrone: (Rushing to her side)

Where, can you narrow the field?

Magda: We can try, here goes

(Turns a dial beside the screen)

The screen becomes less pixelated and in a corridor near where
the shard crashed is a cold blooded life form growing fainter.

Zafrone: It must be Sorin, she was coming back to us
remember, I have to find her

(Starts walking towards the door)

Doctor: (Rushes to stop him)

You can't go out there

Zafrone: (Pushing past and hissing slightly)

And you can't stop me!

Doctor: (Stopping him again)

Zafrone the current radiation levels out there will kill you in
under a minute, now that's not enough time to find Sorin and get
her back here, because for some reason we still seem to have air,
now step aside.

Magda: He's right Zafrone, you can't save her, I know what
she means to you, what she means to all of us but is it worth
risking two lives?

Zafrone: (Sighs)

Doctor: (Getting ready to open the door)

Right just popping out, back in a while, oh and stand clear of
the door please

Fi: (Shouting)

What are you doing? You just said it wasn't safe to go out there
with that level of radiation around

Magda: Humans can't deal with that, you'll melt

Doctor: Good thing I'm not human then!

(Goes to open the door)

Oh one more thing, 749583/, err, hat, and I meant it when I said
stay away from the doors!

The Doctor opens the door and immediately closes it behind him,
sealing the others into the room. He then dashes along the
smashed corridors choking and groaning with pain as he runs.

Bailey: (Understanding the Doctor's last message)

749583/hat! Oh Doctor you are, just are!

(Types in the co-ordinates on the typewriter)

The TARDIS phases in and out of reality as it hangs in space
until finally disappearing and materialising in a corridor on the
base. The Doctor finally reaches Sorin slumped against a wall in
a corridor close to death

Doctor: (Rushing to he side)

Come here you

Sorin: (Struggling to speak)

Doctor...

Doctor: (Placing his arms underneath her)

Shh Shh, don't try to speak, just hold on

He picks her up and carries her around the next corner where the
TARDIS is waiting, he kicks the doors open and rushes Sorin
inside and places her on the sofa.

Bailey: (Goes to close the doors)

Doctor: (Rushing ahead of her)

No, no, no! I said stay away from the doors, and I knew having
them open inwards would come in handy some day.

Bailey: I've been listening to everything

Doctor: (Slightly out of breath)

I know!

Bailey: I know you know!

Doctor: (Groaning with pain and grasping his chest)

Bailey: Doctor what is it are you hurt?

Doctor: (Dropping to the floor)

It's the radiation, I absorbed it but I need to expel it somehow.

Bailey: (Panicking)

What do you mean? How?

Doctor: (Groans)

I hoped it wouldn't come to this! I just have to channel the
radiation into something.

(Clutches his bow-tie and wiggles his head, before ripping
the bow-tie from his neck, opening the doors and throwing it
out)

I liked that tie!

Bailey: (Shocked and impressed)

Doctor: (Holding out his arms to Bailey)

You are spectacular!

Bailey: (Sarcastic)

I was rather amazing wasn't I!

Doctor: Amazing! You flew the TARDIS, only one other person
in the universe who's flown the TARDIS singlehandedly, speaking
of flying the TARDIS, there are some Rogantillians who currently
need rescuing.

(Rushes around the consol flicking switches and pulling
leavers)

The TARDIS materialises on the bridge where Zafrone, Magda and Fi
sit in a huddle together, the door opens and the Doctor pokes his
head out.

Doctor: Need a lift?!

The TARDIS appears in the large clearing on the hill where the
Doctor and Bailey first met the Rogantillians and they step out
of the TARDIS just in time to watch the whole research base come
crashing to the ground.

Zafrone: (Turning to the Doctor)

Thank you Doctor

Doctor: (Sad)

I'm sorry about the Captain and Yvonne, but there was nothing we
could have done

Magda: They gave themselves so that we could be saved

Sorin: (Slightly horse)

And helped to save the planet

Fi: They shall be honoured by our elders and forever
remembered for what they did to save Jurassica

Magda: How long do you think until the asteroid fragment
will be safe enough to move or approach?

Doctor: I shouldn't think it will be long for the radiation
to be absorbed by the soil, nothing will grow around it for a few
years but it should be safe by then, I wouldn't worry.

Fi: Thank you Bailey and thank you Doctor, we shall
always remember what you did for us today, until the ending of
the universe every generation of Rogantillian shall know of the
courageous Doctor and his resourceful companion.

Doctor: (Bows his head slightly)

The slightly battered Rogantillian walk away down the hill away
from the wreckage of the base into the jungle and Bailey and the
Doctor return to the TARDIS. The Doctor rushes up to the consol
while Bailey lags behind walking slowly.

Doctor: (Looking down at Bailey)

You ok?

Bailey: Yeah I'm fine

Doctor: You don't look fine!

Bailey: The Captain and Yvonne

Doctor: (Sighs)

There was...

Bailey: Nothing you could have done I know, but they're
still dead aren't they

Doctor: When you get to be as old as I am you learn to live
with death

Bailey: That's not an answer

Doctor: What was the question?

Bailey: How can you live with allowing people to die?

Doctor: (Offended)

I didn't leave them in that room to die, they went to help save
their world, and without me and you the whole planet would now be
nothing but a lump of radioactive rock.

Bailey: (Realising her insensitivity)

Sorry Doctor, I didn't mean...I just...

Doctor: I know, you're only human!

Bailey: Well I've certainly learnt my lesson for the day

Doctor: What's that?

Bailey: Never read a book in front of you, it seems to
give you ideas!

Doctor: Well if you will be boring on my ship

Bailey: (Lightening up)

But now I can fly the TARDIS!

Doctor: (Leaping up and hauling Bailey with him)

Right then, Miss expert on flying the TARDIS, show me what you're
made of!

Bailey: (Laughs and joins the Doctor at the
consol)

Doctor: The TARDIS is really supposed to be piloted by six
people anyway!

Bailey: (Laughing)

Really?!

Doctor: Really!

Together they spin around the consol pressing buttons and pulling
leavers while the TARDIS hums, whirs and sparks in the
background.